How do you know what your costs will be with Python 2.7, Brandon? I don't believe it is available yet, so are you using it as a "trusted tester"? If so, I'd be curious to know how many concurrent threads you can get per instance with Python 2.7.
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Brandon Wirtz <[email protected]> wrote: > I monetize quite a few of my applications with Adsense, GAE Drastically > lowered my hosting costs on the old billing, and since moving to Python 2.7 > they are in check for the new billing as well. If I could have old billing > and 2.7 I'd be really excited... but 2.7 brings my costs inline with what I > had anticipated post beta to look like. > > -Brandon > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Epshteyn > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 10:59 AM > To: Google App Engine > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: [google-appengine] Another perspective on the upcoming datastore > prices > > Consider an average dynamic page in any web application. It might do one > entity write and fetch a small result set. Under the new GAE billing model, > this might cost 25 Write Ops, and 21 Read Ops (a pretty conservative > estimate). > > Those amount to ~ $40 per million page views, which is more than the average > revenue from Google AdSense for the same million pageviews! > > There's something really wrong with this picture. The reason AdSense does > so well is that web hosting in this day and age costs a lot less than what > AdSense earns. But now GAE hosting is about to cost much more than what > AdSense earns (and so far I only counted just the datastore ops, so the true > costs might be 2-3x higher than $40 per million pageviews). > > The bottom line: developers will be losing money by hosting an ad- supported > application on GAE! > > What's going on here? Google App Engine was supposed to be more cost- > effective than the alternatives, but these new prices seem to be totally out > of whack with the reality of current web economics. > > To the management at Google who came up with these prices: please consider > consulting the AdSense team before these prices go into effect! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
